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HORSE COLLAR PAD. No. 270,960.` Patented Jan. 23, 1883-.

N. PETERS. Photllmcgflpber, WIM D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHEW W. LYNCH, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO DEXTER` CURTIS, OF SAME PLACE.

HORSE-COLLAR PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 270,960, dated January 23, 1883,

' Application filed October 28,1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHEW W. LYNCH, of Madison, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented acertain new and Improved Horse-Collar Pad; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l. represents a perspective View of a collar-pad constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line x a', Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference in the several ti gures denote the same parts. :f

Heretofore horse-collar pads have usually been constructed either entirely ot' metal or entirely of leather, or of .leather having an arched piece of metal applied to the outside of its top or crown. The pad constructed e11- tirely ofmetal has the advantage ofpresen ting a smooth, firm, cool surface to the neck of the animal, andof being sufficiently stift' at the crown of the arch to prevent it from bending and pinching the animal; and, moreover, being made preferably of zinc, it has curative or remedial properties which prevent the galling of the animal or operate to cure galls produced by other pads; but because of the iniiexibility of the sides of this pad, if they,

from any cause, become bent, they remain in their bent position, being in this respect inferior to the leather pads. The leather pad has the quality of lightness and flexibility at the sides, but is inferior to the metal pad, in l that it docs not present the cool, smooth', nonabsorbent surface of the latter, and, further, because it lacks the necessary stiffness at the arch or crown, butat that point pinches vthe animals neck. This latter objection is in a measurevcured in the pad of the third class mentioned, wherein the arch or crown is stift'- ened somewhat by an externally-applied metal strap; but in this form of pad the surface of the leather bears directly on the animals neck, and the pad has not the cool, smooth, remedial bearing of the pad made wholly of metal. Observing the defects and advantages of these several kinds of pads, I have at length succeeded in producing a pad combining the advanta-ges of all of them without the defects of any. This I have accomplished by forming In practice I form the body A ofthe pad of 6a heavy leather, and then apply to the inner arched portion a strip. of metal, B, peferably zinc, of about two inches in width, and secure the same by rivets D at the corners. The strip ot' zinc is preferably pressed into the body of the leather flush with the surface of the latter,.so as to form a smooth joint all around. Thus formed, the pad is cheaply constructed, is light, strong at the top, with a cool,smooth, remedial bearing for the neck of the animal, and leather sides of the required flexibility.

- I am aware of the existence, prior to my invention herein claimed, ot' a collar-pad consisting ot' a zinc pad covered on the outside with leather; also, of a metal pad covered on both sides with leather; also, of a collar-pad composed of a curved plate of metal lined on the inside with soft lead and covered on the outside by a leather covering; also, of a horsecollar of leather having its sides which bear upon the neck-of the horse lined with lead plates; and neither of said constructions do'I claim herein as my invention, nor. as falling within the scope of the claims given below.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new- I. A horse-collar pad consisting of a curved body of leather or other like flexible material and a narrow metal bearing-plate applied and secured to the under side of the top or arch, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. Ahorsecollar pad consisting of a curved body ot' leather or other like ilexible material and a narrow metal bearing-plate, preferably of zinc, pressed into the under side of the top or arch flush with the surface of the leather, substantially as described.

MATTHEW W. LYNCH. Witnesses:

R. M. BAsHEoRD, H. H. HARRINGTON. 

